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Distribution and Biological Features of Grayling Thymallus thymallus (Thymallidae) in the European North-East of Russia

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The distribution and some ecological features of the European grayling Thymallus thymallus are studied in the extreme European Northeast of Russia. In many water systems of the region the state of the species is close to natural one. A significant ecological and genetic diversity of the populations is found. According to the ratio of genotype frequencies of the polymorphic two allelic system of blood serum transferrins the grayling populations in the Pechora River system can be combined into two clusters, Ural and Timan ones which differ from the groupings of the Kola Peninsula. It is suggested that a wide spectrum of ecological conditions provides a successful existence of all species diversity of European grayling in the northeast of the European part of Russia.

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We are grateful to M.I. Cherezova (Institute of Biology, Komi Science Center, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences) for assistance in collecting and processing the materials.

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This work was performed within the framework of a state assignment “Distribution, Systematics and Spatial Organization of Fauna and Population of Terrestrial and Aquatic Animals of the Taiga and Tundra Landscapes and Ecosystems of the European North-East of Russia”, project no. АААА-А17-1171128500235-2.

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Ponomarev, V.I., Zakharov, A.B. Distribution and Biological Features of Grayling Thymallus thymallus (Thymallidae) in the European North-East of Russia. J. Ichthyol. 61, 206–219 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945221010112

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